How can the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) reach these times? How to return to base and continue the transformation?
These are some of the questions asked by the members of the organization’s Secretariat who, aware that the first challenge is to think that women can achieve anything, debated in the Plenary Session of the FMC National Committee, the ways for better implementation of the work objectives agreed at the XI Congress.
Teresa Amarelle Boué, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party and general secretary of the FMC, stressed that attention to cadre policy must be prioritized, since “we have formed ourselves, and we are at a point where there are 200 positions vacancies, so these are not times to work with what should be, but to do so in contingency.
Zonya Rivero López, second secretary of the organization, pointed out the need to intensify prevention work and community social work, so that they contribute to the ideological political education of women and their families.
Likewise, greater attention needs to be paid to voluntary activism, to avoid teenage pregnancy and incompatible behaviors in society. For this purpose, starting this month, as explained by the official, the articulation of the Workshop Houses will be carried out as a space that makes it possible to create opportunities in favor of the demands of women and families.
Along these lines, and taking into account the existing criminal phenomena, Zonya Rivero added the urgency of developing concrete actions that adjust to the diagnosis in the municipalities, to be able to face the phenomena in terms of prevention.
Therefore, he highlighted, “meetings will be held with women managers and workers, to increase their legal and political preparation, prioritizing the exchange with those who manage material and financial resources to help counteract the manifestations of illegalities and criminal behavior.”
The meeting discussed the communication processes to disseminate the work of the FMC and educate society with a gender perspective. In this regard, Marilys Zayas Schuman, director of Editorial de la Mujer, stated that “we have to change the discourse towards one that is more critical and closer to youth, as well as enhance community communication with all the actors involved. Furthermore, expand the use of digital platforms and incorporate intersectionality, and work on making women visible in all their diversity,” she stated.
